En Passant

Hanson’s ever-changing policy approach reflects the PHONies’ pretense of being for the battlers while aspiring to be part of the establishment, I write in Independent Australia.

Pauline Hanson cloaked her xenophobia in the cloth of liberating women, but taking her lead from Trump, her real aim is to unite the forces of fascism and white supremacy and build her electoral and social base.
 
You can read my full article in Independent Australia by clicking here.

One Nation employs conspiracy theories to create divisions. This may help fuel the rise of fascism in Australia, I write in Independent Australia.

In Independent Australia (IA) I discuss the political and economic conditions underlying the rise of “Hansonism”.

The time has come for all decent thinking people to unite and take real action to shut down the puppets of hate and fear and their political masters in the Government and Opposition. Let’s take to the streets and shut down our cities to shut down Don Dale, to shut down Nauru and to stop the fascists.

As humanity faces possible destruction because of climate change, as the free marketeers cling grimly and absurdly to their non-solutions, as the middle class begins to chaff further and further at its decline, as disaffected workers look to the right for answers, the need for an alternative voice, a voice of revolution and socialism and human liberation, has never been greater.

Barnaby Joyce is not a buffoon, and the Labor Party (and sections to the left of it) dismiss him at their peril. His comments about Chinese ownership of Australian assets and his questioning of the ability of Australia and some states to repay government debt represent the day to day concerns of millions of Australians, in particular middle […]

Sometimes those from small business backgrounds can rise above their curse and achieve bourgeois greatness.  John Howard did. So too did Bob Menzies. Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke are Labor examples. What these leaders have in common is that in power they governed in the interests of big business, that small elite who make the major decisions about investment, wages, employment. […]